River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
NoRTHwEsTERN NEWS.

IL l. HOW tsllllldltu lildl lllb loss re-
sulting from the destruction of the city of
Marshfeld, Wis, will not be less than
| S3,000,010 and may be nearly S3,500,000. The
insurance may reach $4,000. The burned
district embraces eight blocks. A conductor
on the Wisconsin Central who passed
through the morning after the fire said
| that the only thing to toe seen at Marshfield
| from where the depot used to stand was
| one house and an expanse of blackened
ruins, with here and there remnants of a
smokestack and some warped and twisted
machinery TO show where mill had stood.
He describes the scene as one of awful
desolation, hardly relieved by the presence
of human beings, as everybody had left or
was leaving as fast as possible An organ
lied effort has been instituted to assist the
stricken people. $1,000 in money and pro
visions has been donated by Oshkosh The
upham saw mills are to be rebuilt.
The twenty-ninth annual convention
of the Minnesota State Sunday School asso-
ci ,tion closed June 30. The following off
GERS We're elected for the ensuing year
President l.. a. Gilbert, st Paul; vice presi-
dent, NJ. L. Webb, Zumbrota; secretary, $.
Sherin, st. Paul; treasurer, j. +. Bell, Min
neapolis Central CommIttee-R. ID. Rus
sell, w. NJ. Y. Tenny, j. ID. Blake, George
Bradbury, Hennepin county; d. 5. Taylor,
Thomas Cochran, T.. A. Woodward, j. II.
Randall, Ramsey; Harlan w. p. Page, Rice
Rev. Cummings, Steans: C. F. Gibson,
Dodge; Il. v. Decoster, Meeller; X. A. Mott,
Rice; George f. Bidwell Lyon; 4. w.
Bradley, st. Louis.
Quite copious rains were reported
throughout Minnesota and Dakota, June 30.
FIX Gov. Gilbert A. Pierce returned to Bis
marck June 30 from a two weeks tipthrough
out North and South Dakota, says crop
prospects were never better, and that reports
to the contrary are sent out for a purpose.
He admits that for a limited area i'm
mediately adjoining Bismarck, jamestown
and Pierre the crops are looking poorly, but
these poor sections he says do not equal one
township in extent At Pierre the damage
was caused by hot winds. In all other sec
tions of the territory he declares that all
conditions for big crop are favorable.
Lanesboro Mimi, special, June l.
For the first time in the history of South
eastern Minnesota an almost total failure of
crops is likely to be experienced. The fields
are alive with chinch bugs, and together
with drouth they have made an almost
clean sweep of wheat and barley and are
now attacking corn and oats. Farmers are
cutting their wheat and barley for feed.
The hay crop is failure owing to the pro-
longed hot and dry weather. Some far
mers are surrounding their corn fields with
tarred boards to prevent the migration of
Chinch bugs thither,
At Glencoe. Mimi, l.. w. Jameson,
was sentenced to two years at Saltwater
for the abduction of Emma Erbaeh. Miss
Erbach, under IL years Of age was ken, or
induced to leave her home in Glencoe, bS
Jameson. and taken to his mothers home
in nt. Paul, last September. While therA,
last April, she gave birth to a child, dying
at childbirth. Jameis0n was arrested and
held under the charge of abduction, and re-
ceived sentence as above stated
The respective directories of the cities
of st. Paul and Minneapolis for lsS7-s, are
issued, that of st. Paul containing 1921
names, an increase of 1858 names for the
year, and using the multiplier 2l5 shows a
population Of 1857. The directory of
MINNEAPOLIS gives that city 59,2Sl names
Using the multiple of q Z, the same al in St.
Paul, the population Of Minneapolis would
be l49,3G2, or 6,316 less than that of st. Paul.
A dispatch from Chatfield, Mimi,
says: The farmers are looking blue in this
section of the country. There is no rain,
and the chinch bugs are destroying the
crop. The spring wheat and barley crop
will be "A failure, and in some instances the
bugs are working in the corn and oats. If
we do not have rain within a week the crops
will be n complete failure here.
1t is reported from Beloit, Wis, that
unless rain comes soon farming will be a
total failure this year Haying is nearly
over and is no crop at all. Very little rain
has fallen since April Railway trains set
fires on the dry fields they pass through
daily, and Beloit itself has narrowly es-
capped serious fire from that cause.
The town of Hurley, Wis, was about
half destroyed by fire on the 2Sth. The fire
started in meat market, and over eighty
including five business blocks were
burned, and the fire only stopped when va
cant lots were reached. The loss is estima-
ted at $4,000 with very little insurance.
The Fourth Of July brings no record |
Of dire calamities, and for once the day we
passed without tale to mar its |
interest or happiness. There were an un-
usual number Of celebrations throughout |
Dakota, at which Oratory aud good cheer /
presided and the people enjoy ed holiday 1
Df unusual satisfaction and credit.
The Mayor OF Winona, MINI, issued |
a proclamation prohibiting the discharge Of |
any gun, cannon, torpedo, fire cracker or 4
any other eombustible material within the |
,ity limits on the Fourth, on account of the /
extreme dryness of the weather and the /
Hanger of fire.
During June the circulation of stan
lard silver dollars increased sS4, 6s7 and the
gold holdings of the treasury increased
s21, s.6. The increase of silver circulation /
Turing the year was $780, 600 and the in
,rease in the gold holdings during the same |
lime was so $4,000.
The presence of chinchbugs are re-
ported from Minnesota farms. A Shakopse,
MINI, dispatch says that they have APP
Desred in the eastern part of Scott county /
md are destroying the crops. Farmers are
to NOV down their grain 10 save
{ for feed
On the 2Sth. Frank Stafford of May
7ille, Mimi, while intoxicated, sat down on
he track of the Manitoba, short distance
rom Osakis, and was killed by the night |
reight. He was badly mangled. The re
mains were sent to his late home
Lieut. Wilcox, tried at Fort Smelling
or duplicating bis paE ACCOUNTS was found
,uilty by the Court Martial pho fixed the
)enalty at two years continent in the
Minnesota penitentiary and this finding has
'een approved at Washington.
Loyejoy's planning min. sash, door
md blind factory and several other build
ngs were burned at La Crosse, Wis, and